Tag: Gender

  • Nation & World

    Sex differences influence organ transplant rejection rate

    A new study indicates that data on transplant rejection rates have been correlated with specific patterns of donor and recipient sex in several types of transplanted organs, including kidneys and hearts.

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    When disease strikes, gender matters

    Experts in Harvard Chan School discussion call for more sensitivity to differences between men and women in study and treatment of disease.

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    Confronting campus issues from the stage

    The Bok Center Players specialize in thought-provoking theater examining race, gender, and identity.

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    White and male and seen all over

    When portraits on institutional “walls of fame” are almost exclusively of white men, it sends a message that can have psychological and performance effects, two researchers said at a recent Diversity Dialogue.

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    The costs of inequality: For women, progress until they get near power

    In recent decades, women have made progress in pay and parity with men in such professions as medicine and law. But when it comes to running things at the highest levels, it’s generally still a man’s world.

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    ‘Transgender in America’ shares an intimate journey

    Tiq Milan, a writer and journalist who carved a niche for himself as a media advocate and one of the leading voices for transgender equality, shared his thoughts and his story during “Transgender in America,” a panel discussion at Harvard.

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    The magic to breaking down barriers

    Shaun Harper, executive director of the Center for the Study of Race and Equity in Education at the University of Pennsylvania, addressed “Fostering an Inclusive Campus Environment: From Magical Thinking to Strategy and Intentionality” as the inaugural presenter for the Harvard College Visiting Scholar Program on March 5.

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    Hierarchical differences

    Female academics are less likely to collaborate across rank, a Harvard study found.

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    A transformative TV role

    Transgender actress Laverne Cox visited campus to discuss her breakout role on the acclaimed Netflix series “Orange Is the New Black.”

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    Men on a mission

    The Women’s Student Association at HBS finds some effective new ambassadors to negotiate gender issues on campus — men.

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    The power of trans

    “Trans Arts” was a two-hour panel Wednesday of poets, critics, and performers who in some cases identify with the gender opposite from the bodies into which they were born.

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    What’s in a face?

    Using scans of the brain, Harvard researchers show that patterns of neural activity change when people look at black and white faces, and male and female faces.

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    A woman’s endless work

    Author Claire Messud discussed her latest novel during an appearance at Harvard as part of the Writers at Work series. “Midlife hits people at different times,” said Messud, a former Radcliffe Fellow. “That moment you realize life is finite, it has a horizon.”

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    ‘Sisterhood of the traveling pantsuit’

    This week, Harvard Business School celebrated 50 years of women in its M.B.A. program with a summit that drew hundreds of the School’s female graduates to campus. But as a new alumni survey demonstrates — and as speakers like “Lean In” author Sheryl Sandberg acknowledged — women still have a long way to go to…

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    Using privilege helpfully

    Acknowledging one’s privilege — and using that advantage to help level the playing field for everyone — is essential in the fight against racism and sexism, activist Peggy McIntosh told a crowd of Harvard faculty and staff in the second of this year’s FAS diversity dialogues.

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    Progress, but no letup

    In the LGBT community, “equal rights does not necessarily mean equal lives,” Tim McCarthy, an activist and Harvard lecturer, told a Harvard Kennedy School audience on July 11. With that in mind, he and a group of researchers at the Face Value project are aiming to combat real-world stigma, not just legal discrimination.

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    Immersed in the body politic

    Susan Greenhalgh, a new professor in Harvard’s anthropology department, studies China’s controversial one-child policy, finding lessons for American health policymakers, too.

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    Helping women help themselves

    Victoria Budson always wanted to aid the cause of gender equality. As executive director of the Kennedy School’s Women and Public Policy Program, she helps to develop leaders, too.

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    A director of BGLTQ student life

    Harvard College Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds will appoint a new director to coordinate resources and develop programming to support bisexual, gay, lesbian, transgender, and queer undergraduates.

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    The Wal-Mart way

    Joseph Sellers, a lead attorney in the class action suit against Wal-Mart Stores, discussed the background of the workplace discrimination case and his experience arguing it before the Supreme Court.

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    Learning to listen

    About 60 Harvard undergraduates from a wide range of ethnic, racial, and socioeconomic backgrounds take part in Sustained Dialogue, a program that assembles students from diverse backgrounds and experiences to discuss often divisive topics such as race, class, gender, and sexuality.

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    Troubled youth

    Linda Schlossberg’s debut novel, “Life in Miniature,” depicts a mother’s mental illness and a daughter’s coming of age.

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    Don’t just stand there

    It’s easy enough to say you value diversity, but honoring that goal can be tricky in context. A workshop on bystander awareness offered strategies on what to do when diversity is challenged in the workplace.

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    Mallika Kaur awarded Frederick Sheldon Traveling Fellowship

    The Harvard Committee on General Scholarships has awarded Mallika Kaur, M.P.P. ’10, the 2010-11 Frederick Sheldon Traveling Fellowship, which will support her travel, study, and writing on gender issues in Indian-administered Kashmir.

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    Harvard conference on gender and law looks at past, present, future

    It was a homecoming of sorts when Ruth Bader Ginsburg, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, spoke at a conference on gender and the law today (March 12) at a conference at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

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    Krook looks at how women fare in international political arena

    This past Sunday (March 8) was International Women’s Day, now in its 99th year. And March is National Women’s History Month. So what better time for a scholarly look at how women are faring in the political arena? Mona Lena Krook did just that, outlining in a March 4 lecture at Radcliffe Gymnasium her years…

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    Beauvoir as intellectual, politico, sexual theorist

    Simone de Beauvoir would likely have had a lot to say at a slightly belated 100th anniversary of her birth on Feb. 20 at the Barker Center as a collection of great minds gathered to discuss her great ideas.

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    Rosalind Chait Barnett receives HGSE’s Anne Roe Award

    Rosalind Chait Barnett, director of the Community, Families & Work Program at Brandeis University, received the 2008 Anne Roe Award from the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) on Nov. 17. The biennial award was established in 1979 to honor Anne Roe, the first woman tenured at Harvard in, 1963, and also a leading researcher…

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    Status of women in academe assessed

    More than three decades of championing better opportunities for women has yielded critical changes, but there is still work to be done.

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    Gender and religious scholarship

    A few minutes into a conference last week at the Radcliffe Gymnasium, a building technician appeared on the balcony to open some windows. At the podium below, one of the presenters paused to say, “Air is good.”

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